Ariel

A mysterious entity closes in around John, keeping him trapped inside his house. The only thing protecting him from being crushed is the egg timer ticking down on his kitchen table.

Alone at night, a woman lays in bed as she reveals a traumatizing nightmare to her beloved cat.

A Cape Town couple, Katherine and Hugh, are headed to their private mountain getaway, when they pick up a hitchhiker, Liza, who carries a gun. Liza is invited for lunch, but soon the couple can't get rid of her.

Set in the dark depths of a strange and mysterious power supply complex, ELLIOT tells the tale of a conflicted humanoid (Elliot) struggling to maintain his reality and understand his true identity. Elliot is thrust into a disconcerting downward spiral of despair in which he is forced to recognize the perils of his own cognition and constructed ideals in a crumbling universe where the lines between fantasy, simulation, and reality are blurred, and the fibers of Elliot’s fragile existence are ruptured.

A figure wanders through a world of endless stairs, seeking purpose to his monotonous existence.

The story of a young man who, through a series of surreal visions, comes to believe that he is a serial killer targeting pedophiles.

In the late 1970’s and after a traumatic event on their honeymoon, a struggling couple visit an experimental, and borderline unethical memory research facility.

The creator of an artificial intelligence that helps people with relationships begins to believe that he is possessed by the AI ​​itself. In the same time, a user of the same AI also begins to go crazy, causing the two to fall into a kind of insanity, unable to tell the difference between reality and fantasy.

An office worker drifts through a nameless government building that runs experiments on humans. As repetition begins to distort her reality, she becomes overwhelmed by the guilt and the sneaking suspicion that she may also be a subject of experimentation.

An artist, surrounded by the mess in her studio, struggles with frustration as she tries to find inspiration for her new painting.

Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems.

After a brutal robbery, a Shopkeeper sets out to get back what was stolen from him: his pride. Featuring a unique blend of fiction and reality.

a trio of wordless vignettes from the in-between.

One man's attempts to defeat the tortures of his own mindscape come to a head in the midst of a game of poker, when a mysterious figure interjects the flow of things and everything takes a turn for the worst. As the audience and the protagonist experience the same horrors it leads them to ask the question - who's bluffing? Written and directed by Santino Benedetto, DB was brought to life by him and his fellow filmmaker and life long friend Thomas Dylan Gracey.

Perystyl

In the desolate countryside, haunted by recurrent dreams, a young drifter finds himself at the borderlands between the living and the dead.

A young woman finds her lost lover in a world of ever-changing surreal landscapes. But love, she discovers, is more complicated than she imagines.

After taking a wrong turn, a young man somehow falls into a mysterious cave and becomes hopelessly lost. As he searches for a way out, the journey he experiences forces him to confront the deepest parts of himself.

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

A couple arrives home and encounters strange people.